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Historian of science, secrecy, and nuclear weapons. Professor of STS at @FollowStevens. UC Berkeley alum with a Harvard PhD. NUKEMAP creator. Coder and web dev.

Hoboken, NJ / NYC
blog.nuclearsecrecy.com
Joined September 2011

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    1. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 12 Jun 2018
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      Under any other administration, the joint declaration would be easily denounced as an empty waste of time. Under the present one, it's progress — it gives the appearance of a "win," and reduces the chances of military action against DPRK. I'll take it, given the circumstances.

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    2. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 12 Jun 2018
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      When your options are, "get into a Twitter fight with a nuclear power" or "make empty joint declarations of friendships with a dictator," the latter is — sad as it may be — preferable.

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    3. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 12 Jun 2018
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      The most positive thing you can say about it is that Trump was open to essentially giving the DPRK what they wanted, in exchange for some good publicity. Under the circumstances, that may have been the best of all realistic outcomes, and certainly better than the previous path.

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    4. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 12 Jun 2018
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      One last "take" for now: only someone totally oblivious to diplomacy, disarmament, and obligations to allies, with the full blessing of his party no matter what he does, could have allowed DPRK to "join" the world in this way, without any real preconditions or obligations.

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    5. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 12 Jun 2018
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      That's not a really positive statement about Trump. Things built on nothing tend to fall apart on nothing, too. But US-DPRK relations have been in a tailspin since the 1990s, when the GOP deliberately sabotaged them to score political points. So a reset of some sort was needed.

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    6. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 12 Jun 2018
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      The irony here is obvious: perhaps near-total capitulation was exactly what was needed in this circumstance? That the GOP would sign off on it (so far), to avoid contradicting Trump, is not in the least surprising, and maybe actually expedient in this instance.

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      Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 12 Jun 2018
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      As others have noted, it of course underscores the absolute hypocrisy of undermining the Iran deal, of course. There's no real policy here, just headlines and photo-ops. In the long run, this approach is very dangerous for the US, and the world.

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        2. Tom Hall‏ @thomahal_ 12 Jun 2018
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          "“I may be wrong,” Trump said during a news conference after the meeting. “I may stand before you in six months and say, ‘Hey, I was wrong.' ” “I don’t know that I’ll ever admit that, but I’ll find some kind of an excuse,” There's video. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/391774-trump-if-i-was-wrong-about-kim-ill-find-some-kind-of-an-excuse … Comment?

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        3. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 12 Jun 2018
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          It would be a refreshing honesty if it didn't reflect that he was actually pretty wet behind the ears on every aspect of this.

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        2. William Craft‏ @ActosNonVerba 12 Jun 2018
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          World is headed toward disaster anyway, nothing man does will stop it.

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        3. Dave Huff‏ @PunaDave 12 Jun 2018
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          Which disaster is that?

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        1. Tom Hall‏ @thomahal_ 12 Jun 2018
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          In your opinion, is the cessation of joint exercises between us and South Korea one of those things that CANNOT be "fixed" by a hopefully sane future president? If it lasts until the next president, would starting them up again not be inevitably seen as a major escalation?

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